LEADER 03627nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910780862003321 005 20230207230925.0 010 $a1-282-45792-6 010 $a1-282-93626-3 010 $a9786612936265 010 $a9786612457920 010 $a1-4008-3507-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400835072 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006991 035 $a(EBL)537696 035 $a(OCoLC)650310432 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000411532 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11289769 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411532 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10374304 035 $a(PQKB)10315549 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC537696 035 $a(DE-B1597)446966 035 $a(OCoLC)979742212 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400835072 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4968591 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL537696 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364756 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293626 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4968591 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245792 035 $a(OCoLC)741250580 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006991 100 $a20090514d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlibis of empire$b[electronic resource] $eHenry Maine and the ends of liberal imperialism /$fKaruna Mantena 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12816-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tINTRODUCTION. The Ideological Origins of Indirect Rule -- $tCHAPTER ONE. The Crisis of Liberal Imperialism -- $tCHAPTER TWO. Inventing Traditional Society: Empire and the Origins of Social Theory -- $tCHAPTER THREE. Codification in the East and West -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. The Nineteenth-Century Debate on Property -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. Native Society in Crisis: Conceptual Foundations of Indirect Rule -- $tCODA. Liberalism and Empire Reconsidered -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aAlibis of Empire presents a novel account of the origins, substance, and afterlife of late imperial ideology. Karuna Mantena challenges the idea that Victorian empire was primarily legitimated by liberal notions of progress and civilization. In fact, as the British Empire gained its farthest reach, its ideology was being dramatically transformed by a self-conscious rejection of the liberal model. The collapse of liberal imperialism enabled a new culturalism that stressed the dangers and difficulties of trying to "civilize" native peoples. And, hand in hand with this shift in thinking was a shift in practice toward models of indirect rule. As Mantena shows, the work of Victorian legal scholar Henry Maine was at the center of these momentous changes. Alibis of Empire examines how Maine's sociotheoretic model of "traditional" society laid the groundwork for the culturalist logic of late empire. In charting the movement from liberal idealism, through culturalist explanation, to retroactive alibi within nineteenth-century British imperial ideology, Alibis of Empire unearths a striking and pervasive dynamic of modern empire. 606 $aImperialism 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies 615 0$aImperialism. 676 $a325/.22 700 $aMantena$b Karuna$f1974-$01505636 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780862003321 996 $aAlibis of empire$93735315 997 $aUNINA